What age you fellas got involve with basketball?

[TDMVPDPOY]

So at what age did any of you fellas got involve playin basketball for the first time or start watchin basketball??

I use to remember early in the 90s in australia they had free to air nba coverage and also the domestic league, even though i didnt know wtf i was watchin but atm they had bulls n blazers finals on tv. So I decided to buy a hoops magazine for no reason....and it came with a ewing poster on it, bought myself a pair of new shoes which were ewings btw :), wanted to buy the reebok pumps just for the pumps hahaha :D but out of my price range and didnt know where to get them.

Then the local playground in the area was pulled down and reconstructed for a few months, only playground left was the basketball courts at primary school, it was in grade 3 or at the age or 8-9 i picked up a basketball and started with the sport during lunch break and after school. A few months after the old playground was turned into a state of the art outside bball court better then rucker park courts IMO, I try and get a picture of the courts and show you guyz. And started collecting NBA cards too and played for sum local team for a few games b4 i decided to pull a quits cause of team was stacked with alot of ball hogs.

[boutons]

I started organized team basketball as soon as it was available, in 4th grade (11 years old), just like organized team football.

But at that point, I had already been playing Little League baseball since age 7 (and not this feminized T-Ball shit, but real hardball).

After grade 9, I stopped HS baseball and football to concenrate on basketball.

[sa_butta]

Ive been playing basketball since I was 6 yrs old. I am 28 now and still hit the courts. I was In organized basketball leagues until I hit high school then just played recreational and tournaments since then.

[Solid D]

So at what age did any of you fellas got involve playin basketball for the first time or start watchin basketball??

When I was 8 yrs. old.

Do you mean just men when you say "fellas" or do you wish to know about our ladies in here also?

[ZStomp]

14/15

[ZStomp]

I started organized team basketball as soon as it was available, in 4th grade (11 years old), just like organized team football.

Holy crap...I was 9 years old when I was in the 4th grade.

[Jimcs50]

11

[spurjur]

I started watching basketball since the age of 10. I started playing at the age of 11. I have been playing since. I am 26 now and going on 27. I don't have that first step like I use to, but I still have my shot from the outside. I think I ruined my body with so many sports at a young age. I started T-Ball at the age of five and played until I was 14. I played football for four years. My left knee tends to hurt from time to time. My lower back is always hurting. Oh well. I wouldn't change a thing. I love to play sports.

[mcornelio]

ive been playing since elemetary school but not seriously, i play like every day now and ive been watching basketball since like 94 when i was 8

[Useruser666]

Around 8 or 9. I only played a little in high school and then just for fun.

[manubili]

About 9, in the eighties. I used to play a lot. My heroes were Larry Bird in the NBA, and Miguel Cortijo in the local league. I guess because both Ferro and Celtics jerseys are green and white! After the Jordan era I stopped caring about basketball, don't know why. Manu's performance en 2003, bring me back to bball.

[boutons]

"I was 9 years old when I was in the 4th grade."

You peaked too soon, been downhill ever since.

Most kids are 6/7 in first grade, 9/10 in 4th grade. My birthday was just before the cutoff date so I lost a grade year. Not uncommon, happens to 1/12 of all kids.

[ObiwanGinobili]

I played basketball on the girls team at my junior high. Of course I never grew taller than 5'6.
I ended up skipping out of basketball to train for the pummel horse (only chick), rope climbing, and sit up competition at Hershey Track & Field.

I never really go into then NBA untill 5 years ago. But I've always been a fan of college basketball. Specificaly the UCONN Huskies, esp. the women's team. I LOVED Rebecca Lobo.. she was a real hometown hero.

[Solid D]

You peaked too soon, been downhill ever since. Most kids are 6/7 in first grade, 9/10 in 4th grade. My birthday was just before the cutoff date so I lost a grade year. Not uncommon, happens to 1/12 of all kids.


Were you held back going into first grade until you were 8 then (if you were 11 in the 4th grade) or did you repeat a grade (which also happens quite often with kids)?

[Joesteds]

Started hoopin at the age of 4 on those little nerf goals and started playing on teams when I was 6. Still playing organized ball at the age of 21, and hoping to continue it overseas if the oppurtunity arrises.

[easjer]

Never played. My poor father - he coached nearly every sport under the sun (but we moved to Texas so he could coach high school football), and his daughter (me) turns out to be a total butterfingers who ducks when you throw a ball at her and his son decides to be a yell leader and run track instead of playing football and basketball.

But I got into following basketball in the 5th grade when George Gervin came to talk to our class about not doing drugs. I had no idea who the hell he was (oh I so regret not getting his autograph) but I got interested in the Spurs. I followed them until high school when I got interested enough to watch games in the WCF in 95. Then I watched a few games here and there and always caught the score from the news. And then I went to college in Houston, was surrounded by Rockets fans and quickly realized how much I loved and missed my Spurs. I followed everything via internet - hell the game in which we clinched HCA throughout the playoffs in 99 was me in front of the computer refreshing the box score every two minutes, lol.

Been die hard ever since. Didn't miss a single game of the playoffs that year onward and I watch every game I can without NBATV.

[boutons]

yes, held back for year from 1st grade. Had to be 6 in Sep to start, but I was 6 in Oct. so had to wait a year, meaning I was one month short of 7 when starting 1st grade, so almost, oops, 10 when I started 4th. I was 19 at HS graduation.

I was always bigger than everybody in my grade, so the extra year older had an advantage in school sports. :) In HS, I guess I was a 6'3" PF (we didn't call it that) while our Center (we did call it that) was 6'7".

[Solid D]

Ah, that makes sense. I guess you were the "most dominant big man" during Recess. :)

[drivanroca]

8.

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

I was 8 when I started competitively.

[alamo50]

Saw Magic vs. The Glide on tv when I was 12 and starting playing ball myself when I was 13 and The Admiral became my idol.

[Supergirl]

Started following basketball in the mid 80's, height of the Lakers-Celtics rivalry. I remember when the Spurs drafted D-Rob. Don't remember following the Spurs much before D-Rob, truthfully, but after that I was hooked on the Spurs forever. Something changed in San Antonio when D-Rob came to town, and I'm not sure why or how, because certainly Gervin was no less the talent. But I don't remember it being quite the hype.

Didn't play basketball till college, when I took pick up basketball for my PE credit. Play whenever I get the chance now.

FYI, I'm not a "fella" - I'm a chick.

[Kori Ellis]

Holy crap...I was 9 years old when I was in the 4th grade.

I was 8 in 4th grade :wow

[SpursWoman]

When I was 8 yrs. old.

Do you mean just men when you say "fellas" or do you wish to know about our ladies in here also?


I lived in Kenya, so I had to have been 5 or 6. :lol

[angel_luv]

I was never a coordinated child and lacked the killer instinct needed to excel at sports.

I grew up watching the Boston Celtics and the Spurs- my dad's two favorite teams respectively.

My first basketball memory: I bet my dad on who would win a college basketball game. I said that Temple would beat the Duke blue devils... because God likes church and not devils. I was 11 or 12.
I sat with dad and watched the entire game. I won the bet and discovered that I liked basketball.

From then on, I started following the Spurs- saw a few games and always checked the standings in the paper.

I became really interested when the Spurs drafted Tim Dunca. At first I just watched to see what all the hype was about. I fell in love with Timmy ( my first celebrity crush) and just had to watch him all the time. That is how I learned about the game.

I saw all of the 99 play off run but missed 2000 cause I was in Europe when the Spurs played. Then life got crazy and I only was able to watch sporadically up until
the 2003 season. But I haven't missed more than five games since then.

[gospursgojas]

I started playing ball fairly old...the 3rd grade. I've never played organized, when I was young money was tight, and I was too much into football (I now regret) in high school

[TDMVPDPOY]

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This is the bball court i was talkin about, atm its freakin autumn or winter down in australia, i try and get a photo of the courts at nite with the lightz turn on. Bodgy thing about the courts is that if theres no one playin on the courts they wont turn on the lights :(.

This bball court, has alot of lines on it, you can play soccer on it, volleyball on it, and tennis on it if you got the equipment...like aka tennis net and volleyball net.

In the bottom right hand corner behind that tree, is a soccer pitch and cricket pitch, to the left of the pic the area that is being land scrapping use to be a cricket pitch also, dunno wtf they are doin now cose there is a project goin on with that area, dunno what they goin to build though.

[mrblonde17]

As long as I can remember; my dad was a basketball player at SWT during the mid sixties and coached up until a few years ago. I grew up in gyms. My babysitters were basketball players.
My father was the basketball coach at Judson when the Spurs came to town. We went to as many games as we could; I've been a fan ever since.
I'm pushing 40 and I still play as much ball as I can talk my wife into.

[xcoriate]

Started playing at around 6, one of my friends who was a bit older started up and I went along for the ride. I'm short as it is but while I was a year yonger than everyone I was absolutely tiny.

I watch whatever is available in regards to bball, back in the 90s when basketball was at itas peak in Australia I would watch on the TV and go to the games with the family occasionly now that its all gone down hill and theres next to no coverage I have to rely on less official methods :)

[Marcus Bryant]

When I was 8. Played in a little league (think it was CYO). In any event, we won the title game 6-4 with me chipping in a bucket as well as a couple of tie-ups (thank God for the possession arrow, my white ass couldn't get off the floor to save my life). I was the team's Rodman, beating up motherfuckers and giving the rock up to my teammates.

[E20]

I watched basketball when I was in 1st didn't really start playing untill I was 13/14.

[xcoriate]

:lmao I remember 0-0 games back in "miniball". Neither team could score we would just run up and down the court in a pack squabbling over the ball.

[milkyway21]

my father played with the University team when he was in college-point guard position. I have 3 brothers who played as well in their college teams. All of them had MVP trophies on their own. I got interested because we support every team they played-college and national teams and we watch the games wherever they went. When I was 7 yrs old I started to know the sport well because it's mostly the topic during dinners, siesta time, while watching television and often when we have some visitors around the house. I read some magazines, too, DVDs and all that stuff.

About the NBA, i started to read the NBA sportsnews when Michael Jordan became famous. He's one of my All-time favorites aside DRob. Then, Tim Duncan got drafted by the Spurs, just in time when MJ announced his retirement. And the rest is history....

[DieMrBond]

I didnt start playing until Australian Year 7, which is 11/12 years old - so fairly late... played organised ball until my final year of highschool, as well as street ball against kids much older than me (and held my own, thankfully).

Was generally one of the taller kids in my earlier years, playing center (i grew early, then stopped) then as i grew older, i went down to shooting guard. Was good at shooting 2/3's, blocks, steals - sucked at rebounding, fts, and i didnt demand the ball! Had a couple of memorable game saving blocks and some good 3pt outings (5/6 23pts total)

But, now... havent picked up a ball for 2 or 3 years...